Not your typical protostar

At the centre of this image, captured by ESA’s Herschel space observatory, is a truly peculiar…

Ascend – the wildlife management solution for airports

Ascend is a satellite-based wildlife monitoring tool for airports. Developed by Ascend XYZ in Denmark under…

Italy earthquake displacement

Combining two Sentinel-1 radar scans from 20 August (Sentinel-1B) and 26 August 2016 (Sentinel-1A), this interferogram…

Comet on 24 August 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera

OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 24 August 2016, when Rosetta was 9.3 km from the…

Third Bosphorus Bridge

This image from the Sentinel-2A satellite captures Turkey's Third Bosphorus Bridge on 8 February 2016. The…

Mutant strip

Mutant soybeans planted as part of a campaign to support the development of ESA’s FLEX mission…

Location of the outburst

On 19 February 2016 Rosetta’s instruments detected an outburst event from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The source was…

Easy rider

Technology image of the week: astronaut Andreas Mogensen combines VR with an air-bearing platform to simulate…

Andreas Mogensen using VR in Orbital Robotics Lab

Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during a summer visit to ESTEC’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory, experiencing weightless…

The real thing

The European Service Module that will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon and beyond is…